If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly alterned. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanour. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily respose are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. Within the depths of consciousness a flame kindles. And man sees himself . He discovers his selfishness, his silly pride, his fears, his greeds, his blunder. He develops a sense of moral obligation and intellectual humility. Thus begins a journey of the soul toward the realm of grace.
Prayer is a force as real as teresterial gravity. ... I have seen men, after all other therapy has filed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. It is the only power in the world that seems to overcome the so-called 'laws of nature'; the occasions on which prayer has dramatically done this hafve been termed, 'miracles'. But a constant, quieter miracle takes place hourly in the hearts of men and women who had discovered that prayer supplies them with a steady flow of sustaining power in their daily lives.
(From 'Treasury of Courage and Confidence' by Dr.Norman Vincent Peale)
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